O valor da ciência e a busca pela verdade, bem e belo na filosofia de Henri Poincaré

Abstract

The question of the value of science has always been of paramount importance to philosophers and scientists. Can we reduce science to its utilitarian results or does scientific research possess any intrinsic intellectual value, independent of its practical dimension? In this article we approach the question having as a guiding thread the thought of the mathematical conventionalist philosopher Henri Poincaré. We shall see how Poincaré conceives the value of science and defends the pursuit of truth and the cultivation of beauty and moral good as nuclei of his vision of science for its own sake.